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* Musician & Teacher: An Orientation to Music Education, by Patricia Shehan Campbell. W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. (www.wwnorton.com; (800) 233-4830), 2007. 328 pp. $40.
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This volume examines the topics of elementary, middle and high school music education from multiple viewpoints and provides information ranging from historical to geographical, as well as philosophical to practical. Intended for use as an introductory college text for music education majors, this book deserves a place in the reference libraries of all independent music teachers and music educators at the elementary, middle or high school levels. For the independent music teacher, this book will be of use to any of their high school students who might be considering music as a career.
Sections on history and philosophy of teaching music are short, but clear. The chapters describing how music is ...